The series of violent incidents at rallies for billionaire Donald
Trump
is a warning of the increasingly fascistic character of the Republican
front-runner’s campaign.

On Wednesday, at a rally near Fayetteville,
North Carolina, a supporter
of Trump attacked a 26-year-old black man,
Rakeem Jones, as he was being
escorted out of the Crown Coliseum by
Cumberland County sheriff’s
deputies. Jones was one of a small group of
anti-Trump protesters at the
event.

The attacker, 78-year-old John
McGraw, punched Jones in the face,
knocking him down. Afterwards, McGraw
boasted of the attack. He told a
television interviewer, "You bet I liked
it," adding, "He deserved it.
The next time we see him, we might have to
kill him… He might be with a
terrorist organization." McGraw was
subsequently arrested and charged
with battery.

At a press conference
Friday morning in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump
defended the attack, blaming it
on the victim. "It was a guy who was
swinging—was very loud—and then started
swinging at the audience," the
billionaire real estate mogul said. "And you
know what? It swung back.
And I thought it was very, very
appropriate."

The attack in North Carolina was followed by physical
confrontations
between Trump supporters and some of the thousands of
protesters who
attended a planned Trump rally in Chicago Friday evening. The
event was
called off at the last minute. In interviews later in the evening,
Trump
said that if the rally had gone forward, "someone might have been
killed."

Earlier this week, when Michelle Fields, a reporter for the
right-wing
Breitbart.com web site, tried to approach Trump after a Florida
rally,
campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbed her by the arm and shoved
her
away, an assault witnessed by several journalists.

These
incidents follow a pattern in which protesters at or outside Trump
rallies
have been physically attacked by Trump supporters, including
members of
white supremacist groups, and Trump security guards, or
forcibly ejected by
police. Last week a young black woman who brought an
anti-Trump sign to a
rally was attacked physically and cursed with
racist and sexist epithets.
Her sign was ripped up and she was
frog-marched out of the
rally.

Trump has repeatedly incited violence against protesters,
beginning last
fall but with increasing frequency once the primaries and
caucuses began:

o On February 1, he told a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
"If you see
somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of
‘em,
would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will
pay for the legal fees."

o On February 22, at a rally in Las Vegas,
Trump denounced a protester,
saying, "I’d like to punch him in the face, I
tell ya." He added, "You
know what they used to do to guys like that when
they were in a place
like this? They’d be carried out on a
stretcher."

o On March 9, in Fayetteville, he said of interruptions by
protesters,
"See, in the good old days this didn’t used to happen, because
they used
to treat them very rough. We’ve become very weak." Shortly
thereafter,
the assault on Rakeem Jones occurred.

In the course of
Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in
Florida, CNN moderator
Jake Tapper quoted these statements and asked
Trump whether he had done
anything to "create a tone" that encouraged
violence.

Trump blandly
denied the obvious. Blaming the victims, he said the
protesters had provoked
his supporters. "People come with tremendous
passion and love for the
country, and when they see protest, in some
cases… They have anger," he
declared. [...]

The Republican Party presidential
front-runner Donald Trump cancelled
his scheduled rally Friday night at the
University of Illinois-Chicago
(UIC), west of downtown Chicago, as violence
and scuffles broke out inside.

Police and the lineup for the
event

Thousands of students and workers in the area marched outside the
UIC
arena to protest Trump’s attendance at the campus, denouncing his
extreme right-wing and fascistic political views. Protesters marched
from the campus quadrangle along a heavily-barricaded protest route to
the UIC Pavilion with a large police and security presence. The protests
outside were entirely peaceful.

In canceling the event, Trump’s team
cited security concerns over
growing protests outside the arena and the
highly volatile situation
inside. After doors were opened at 3:00 p.m.,
protesters who attended
the rally entered into scuffles and altercations
with the rally
participants as well as with security.

After
significant delay, the announcer told the crowd, "The event is
over." Cheers
erupted, as well as more scuffles. Trump’s team told the
media in an
official statement that "for the safety of all of the tens
of thousands of
people that have gathered in and around the arena,
tonight’s rally will be
postponed to another date."

Prior to the cancellation, Trump’s announcers
initially encouraged
conflict by telling attendees to inform police of
protesters by placing
a rally sign over their head and chanting "Trump,
Trump, Trump,"
according to NBC's Chicago affiliate.

The events in
Chicago followed several incidents of violence directed at
protesters from
Trump supporters and security, encouraged by the
candidate. This included an
incident on Wednesday in which a protester
was punched in the face as he was
escorted out of a rally in North
Carolina by police. Trump on numerous
occasions has encouraged his
supporters to "knock the crap out of"
protesters.

Trump responded to the cancellation of the rally on Friday by
denouncing
protesters for violating "free speech."

The anti-Trump
rally was attended by many thousands of workers and
particularly young
people of all races and ethnicities. It was
originally organized on Facebook
by an undocumented UIC graduate
student, Jorge Mena Robles. Robles is a
member of a newly formed
political organization called Mijente, which
promotes Latino identity
politics and voter mobilization for the Democratic
Party. Demonstrators
protesting the Trump event

Support for the
demonstration, however, was not limited to such forces.
Over 11,000
responded to the Facebook event page by Friday.

Citing the incidents of
violence at Trump rallies across the country,
UIC students and faculty
denounced the administration and Chancellor
Michael Amiridis for allowing
Trump to host his campaign event on the
campus. Amiridis responded to the
anger of students and faculty by
saying, on the grounds of "free speech,"
that Trump had every right to
rent a space at UIC. Similar considerations
have not prevented the
administration from placing enormous obstacles on the
promotion of
socialist politics on campus.

Reporters from the World
Socialist Web Site spoke to students, workers
and professionals who attended
the protest against the Trump rally.

Adriti, a biology student at UIC,
said, "Trump needs to go. His attacks
on Muslims and immigrants are
despicable. America is a melting pot. Many
people are fleeing countries as
refugees and he keeps attacking them. So
many immigrants have helped advance
our country. What is the point of
scapegoating immigrants?" Tim and
Adriti

Tim, a student of computer science, added, "And then Trump is
calling
for torture, war and assassinating people. We need to stop doing all
that. We need to stop all the wars too, and I realize that both parties
are involved in these policies. We need more equality and to move in
that direction and away from war and torture."

Paul, a UIC student,
said, "I think Trump is a fascist and he’s a
homophobe and a bigot. He makes
me feel really angry and I don’t think
he would be good for us as president.
I don’t like his ideology or his
political proposals. A lot of people want
the world collectively to be
peaceful and we don’t need to implement war
policies. Things are already
quite dangerous right now." Two of the
demonstrators from UIC

"It really frustrates me that Trump is on the
platform," said Tim, a
professional who came to see the protests. "He’s
channelling the
frustrations of many people and taking it to a really scary
place. As
far as Sanders, I like what he is saying. A big reason why I am
pro-Sanders, at least among the candidates that can be elected, is
because he’s called himself a socialist. I think capitalism is a flawed
system and I agree with socialism in general, but I’m not sure if the
United States is unified enough right now for that.

"But I would like
to see us go towards a more socialist country. I do
worry that Sanders may
not keep his promises, but right now that’s who I
side with. At the same
time, I do need to look at his record more
closely and make a more educated
decision." Rachel

Rachel, a workers compensation paralegal, said, "I hate
Trump. I think
that his policies of wanting to build a wall around Mexico
are
ridiculous. That’s not what America should be about. It’s like the
second coming of Hitler. But we also need an alternative that’s not just
a Democrat or a Republican. Politicians make promises to us that they
won’t keep either. The inequality in this country is extremely awful.
America is not a democracy anymore."

Another student, who also works
at UIC, said, "His policies are
incoherent. I am here more to protest the
fact that UIC is even hosting
Trump. We have an incredibly diverse student
body and it’s a completely
inappropriate place for a Trump rally. He’s
condoned violence at his
rallies before.

"Trump is also calling for
torture, which is an open secret of American
politics now. We have an
ostensibly democratic system that doesn’t in
fact represent people, with our
crony capitalism and the outsized power
of money and lobbyists. Look at the
closure of Chicago State University.
We don’t have money for schools in
Chicago, but if one of [Mayor Rahm
Emanuel’s] buddies wants something, they
have the money for it. Even
Obama was not as liberal as he claimed to be. He
was an idealized candidate.

"If Sanders is elected, it’s going to be
really difficult to see how he
actually deals with the conflicts that the US
is already in. Does he
actually stop drone warfare? Given that he’s for it?
He’s been able to
mobilize grassroots support, but I don’t know how he’s
going to govern
if he’s elected. I agree with you though that we need deep
structural
change."

As new reports break that a George Soros-linked group is taking
credit
for efforts to violently disrupt GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s
campaign
rallies, the Center for Responsive Politics reveals that another
George
Soros-linked group is coordinating another furtive operation to stop
Trump by financing the campaign of John Kasich.

According to the
Center for Responsive Politics, Soros Fund Management
is one of John
Kasich’s top financial contributors.

George Soros–a liberal progressive
donor– has been a top funder of the
push to open America’s borders.
According to a 2013 CNS News report,
"Soros’s Open Society Foundation
proudly claimed to have given $100
million dollars to ‘immigrant rights‘
projects in the United States."
According to the report, those that have
been the beneficiaries of that
$100 million include La Raza (Soros funding
$2.4 million), the Immigrant
Legal Resource Center (Soros funding $1.6
million), as well as Amnesty
International (Soros funding $844,088) and
Immigration Equality (Soros
funding: $301,667).

In addition, Soros
has been financially linked to the National
Immigration Forum—the group
behind the "Evangelical Immigration Table
(EIT). As Breitbart reported in
2013, the Evangelical Immigration Table
"is actually a front group for
players on the institutional left
including billionaire George Soros… EIT is
running a $250,000
advertising campaign in favor of the Senate’s "Gang of
Eight"
immigration bill."

Soros money is frequently tied to groups
with innocuous sounding names
that promote radical agendas– such as the
Evangelical Immigration Table.

Interestingly, as Breitbart News has
previously reported, John Kasich
has made a series of extreme statements on
immigration that place him to
the furthest leftward reaches of not just the
GOP Presidential field,
but the Democratic Presidential field as well. For
instance, Kasich has
said that enforcing our immigration laws and deporting
the illegal
immigrants is not "humane." Kasich likened deportations to the
Japanese
internment camps of World War II. Kasich has also pledged that he
will
enact amnesty within the first 100 days of his hoped-for Presidency– in
effect, meaning that those who support John Kasich’s presidential
campaign are voting to enact the largest amnesty in U.S. history by
April 30, 2017.

The Washington Times reported in January of 2015,
George Soros was also
behind the funding of the Ferguson protests, "Mr.
Soros gave at least
$33 million in one year to support already-established
groups that
emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson,
according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society
Foundations."

As the 2013 CNS report documents, "Soros has aided
hundreds of left-wing
groups in America since 2000 under the auspices of his
Open Society
Foundations. In just 10 years, he gave more than $550 million
to liberal
organizations in the United States. This has included money going
to
fund liberal agenda topics like Earth Day, gun control, government
funding of student loans and even the IRS targeting of
conservatives."

Moveon.Org
is conducting fundraising activities from the Chicago
protests against
Donald Trump that prompted the Republican presidential
front-runner to
cancel a rally there Friday, and promises that more
disruptions are on the
way.

"Last night, without consulting local police, Donald Trump abruptly
cancelled a rally in Chicago in the face of massive and overwhelmingly
peaceful student-led protests," MoveOn.org wrote in an email Saturday to
members. "We’re being flooded with aggressive emails and social media
posts from Trump supporters. Some of them are threatening. We refuse to
be intimidated by Donald Trump, Fox News, or anyone else."

The email
asked members to donate $3 to help the effort. The progressive
group is
funded by billionaire George Soros, and has endorsed Democratic
candidate
Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders for president.

"We need to double down on
our work, showing that America is better than
Trump’s bullying,
hate-baiting, and incitements to violence," the email
read. "We are
committed to nonviolence, but we will not be silent. We
will not be
invisible."

The group detailed its efforts in recent months, highlighting
ads it has
run against the real estate mogul and the advocacy its done on
behalf of
refugees, who it said are "under attack" from the GOP, and the
support
it gave to Trump protesters in Chicago.

"We’ve been ramping
up our efforts for months — from the ‘We Are Better
Than This’ ad we helped
organize in The New York Times in December, to
our collective advocacy for
refugees under attack from the GOP, to the
support we provided students in
Chicago last night by printing signs and
a banner and recruiting MoveOn.org
members to join their peaceful
protest. We need to double-down in the face
of direct attacks on our
community," the email read.

And it pledged
to continue its work.

"So here’s the plan: We’ll support MoveOn.org
members to call out and
nonviolently protest Trump’s racist, bigoted,
misogynistic, xenophobic,
and violent behavior — and show the world that
America rejects Trump’s
hate," the email read. "And to keep it going, we’re
counting on you to
donate whatever you can to cover the costs of everything
involved — the
organizers, signs, online recruitment ads, training, and
more."

People come to the United
States for the promise of freedom and
opportunity. But the current
immigration system in the United States is
broken: Families are separated,
immigrant workers are exploited, people
die trying to cross the border, and
there is rampant discrimination
against immigrants.

How we treat
newcomers should reflect the values of fairness and
equality that define the
United States as a country. We need a
commonsense immigration process, one
that includes a roadmap for people
who aspire to be citizens. Why is it hard
for immigrants to "get in
line" for a green card?

For the vast
majority of undocumented immigrants there is no "line"
available. As the
Immigration Policy Center points out, most
undocumented immigrants lack the
necessary family relationships to apply
for legal entry, and those who do
face years or decades waiting for a visa.

For America’s enormous economy,
current limitations on the number of
total green cards available are
unreasonable. Even if a prospective
immigrant meets green card requirements,
the wait can be everlasting,
according to the Immigration Policy Center. Why
should we create a
pathway to citizenship for undocumented
immigrants?

There are currently 11 million undocumented immigrants in the
United
States. People move to make life better for themselves and their
families. We need an immigration system that recognizes the hardships
and contributions of people moving here, keeps families together here in
this country, and creates a rational process of citizenship for new
Americans. That will do more for the United States than expensive and
impractical approaches like trying to deport millions of people or
trying to wall off a 2,000-mile border.

Why are automatic penalties
that trigger deportation unfair?

Under current law, noncitizens convicted
of what’s known as an
"aggravated felony" face automatic penalties that can
trigger
deportation. Yet the current definition of an "aggravated felony" is
so
expansive that it includes crimes as simple as a bar fight, theft, and
failing to appear in court.

Judges have little discretion in whether
or not to deport immigrants who
have committed crimes in this category.
People should not be deported
without a judge being able to evaluate the
circumstances of their case.
Due process is central to the credibility of
the American justice
system. We should reject any policies that deny due
process, for
immigrants or anyone else.

Why is putting people in
immigration detention harmful?

Liberty should be the norm for everyone,
and detention the last resort.
In the overwhelming majority of immigration
cases, detention is not
necessary to effect deportations and does not make
us any safer. Among
those unnecessarily locked up are survivors of torture,
asylum seekers,
victims of trafficking, families with small children, the
elderly,
individuals with serious medical and mental health conditions, and
lawful permanent residents with longstanding family and community ties
who are facing deportation because of old or minor crimes.

This
lock-up system is a massive waste of taxpayer dollars, costing $2
billion a
year. Detainees are also exposed to myriad abuses—from a lack
of adequate
medical and mental health care that has caused unnecessary
deaths to rape
and sexual assault. Why shouldn’t states and cities be
able enforce their
own immigration laws?

Legislation inspired by Arizona’s "show me your
papers" law invites
rampant racial profiling against Latinos,
Asian-Americans, and others
presumed to be immigrants based on how they look
or sound. Racial
profiling is an ineffective and harmful practice that
undermines our
basic values. We need to ensure that law enforcement
officials are held
to the constitutional standards we value as
Americans—protecting public
safety and the rights of all.

What are
the Open Society Foundations doing to address immigrant rights?

The Open
Society Foundations support efforts to secure federal
immigration reform and
promote fair immigration enforcement, detention,
and deportation policies.
We have invested more than $100 million in
immigrant rights in the United
States since 1997.

Liberal
billionaire gave at least $33 million in one year to groups that
emboldened
activists

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times - Wednesday, January
14, 2015

There’s a solitary man at the financial center of the Ferguson
protest
movement. No, it’s not victim Michael Brown or Officer Darren
Wilson.
It’s not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, despite his ubiquitous campaign
on
TV and the streets.

Rather, it’s liberal billionaire George Soros,
who has built a business
empire that dominates across the ocean in Europe
while forging a
political machine powered by nonprofit foundations that
impacts American
politics and policy, not unlike what he did with
MoveOn.org.

Mr. Soros spurred the Ferguson protest movement through years
of funding
and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to interviews
with key
players and financial records reviewed by The Washington
Times.

In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support
already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots,
on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax
filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.

The financial
tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to
a combustible
protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event
in Missouri into
a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.

"Our DNA includes a belief that
having people participate in government
is indispensable to living in a more
just, inclusive, democratic
society," said Kenneth Zimmerman, director of
Mr. Soros‘ Open Society
Foundations’ U.S. programs, in an interview with The
Washington Times.
"Helping groups combine policy, research [and] data
collection with
community organizing feels very much the way our society
becomes more
accountable."

No strings attached

Mr. Zimmerman
said OSF has been giving to these types of groups since
its inception in the
early ‘90s, and that, although groups involved in
the protests have been
recipients of Mr. Soros‘ grants, they were in no
way directed to protest at
the behest of Open Society.

"The incidents, whether in Staten Island,
Cleveland or Ferguson, were
spontaneous protests — we don’t have the ability
to control or dictate
what others say or choose to say," Mr. Zimmerman said.
"But these
circumstances focused people’s attention — and it became
increasingly
evident to the social justice groups involved that what a
particular
incident like Ferguson represents is a lack of accountability and
a lack
of democratic participation."

Soros-sponsored organizations
helped mobilize protests in Ferguson,
building grass-roots coalitions on the
ground backed by a nationwide
online and social media campaign.

Other
Soros-funded groups made it their job to remotely monitor and
exploit
anything related to the incident that they could portray as a
conservative
misstep, and to develop academic research and editorials to
disseminate to
the news media to keep the story alive.

The plethora of organizations
involved not only shared Mr. Soros‘
funding, but they also fed off each
other, using content and buzzwords
developed by one organization on
another’s website, referencing each
other’s news columns and by creating a
social media echo chamber of
Facebook "likes" and Twitter hashtags that
dominated the mainstream
media and personal online newsfeeds.

Buses
of activists from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference in Chicago;
from the
Drug Policy Alliance, Make the Road New York and Equal Justice
USA from New
York; from Sojourners, the Advancement Project and Center
for Community
Change in Washington; and networks from the Gamaliel
Foundation — all funded
in part by Mr. Soros — descended on Ferguson
starting in August and later
organized protests and gatherings in the
city until late last
month.

Broaden issue focus

All were aimed at keeping the media’s
attention on the city and to widen
the scope of the incident to focus on
interrelated causes — not just the
overpolicing and racial discrimination
narratives that were highlighted
by the news media in August.

"I went
to Ferguson in a quest to be in solidarity and stand with the
young
organizers and affirm their leadership," said Kassandra
Frederique, policy
manager at the Drug Policy Alliance, which was
founded by Mr. Soros, and
which receives $4 million annually from his
foundation. She traveled to
Ferguson in October.

"We recognized this movement is similar to the work
we’re doing at DPA,"
said Ms. Frederique. "The war on drugs has always been
to
operationalize, institutionalize and criminalize people of color.
Protecting personal sovereignty is a cornerstone of the work we do and
what this movement is all about."

Ms. Frederique works with Opal
Tometi, co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter —
a hashtag that was developed after
the killing of Trayvon Martin in
Florida — and helped promote it on DPA’s
news feeds. Ms. Tometi runs the
Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a group
to which Mr. Soros gave
$100,000 in 2011, according to the most recent of
his foundation’s tax
filings.

"I think #BlackLivesMatter’s success is
because of organizing. This was
created after Trayvon Martin, and there has
been sustained organizing
and conversations about police violence since
then," said Ms.
Frederique. "Its explosion into the mainstream recently is
because it
connects all the dots at a time when everyone was lost for words.
‘Black
Lives Matter’ is liberating, unapologetic and leaves no room for
confusion."

With the backing of national civil rights organizations and
Mr. Soros‘
funding, "Black Lives Matter" grew from a hashtag into a social
media
phenomenon, including a #BlackLivesMatter bus tour and march in
September.

"More than 500 of us have traveled from Boston, Chicago,
Columbus,
Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson,
Washington,
D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other cities to support
the
people of Ferguson and help turn a local moment into a national
movement," wrote Akiba Solomon, a journalist at Colorlines, describing
the event.

Colorlines is an online news site that focuses on race
issues and is
published by Race Forward, a group that received $200,000 from
Mr.
Soros’s foundation in 2011. Colorlines has published tirelessly on the
activities in Ferguson and heavily promoted the #BlackLivesMatter
hashtag and activities.

At the end of the #BlackLivesMatter march,
organizers met with civil
rights groups like the Organization for Black
Struggle and Missourians
Organizing for Reform and Empowerment to strategize
their operations
moving forward, Ms. Solomon wrote. OBS and MORE are also
funded by Mr.
Soros.

Mr. Soros gave $5.4 million to Ferguson and
Staten Island grass-roots
efforts last year to help "further police reform,
accountability and
public transparency," the Open Society Foundations said
in a blog post
in December. About half of those funds were earmarked to
Ferguson, with
the money primarily going to OBS and MORE, the foundation
said.

OBS and MORE, along with the Dream Defenders, established the
"Hands Up
Coalition" — another so-called "grass-roots" organization in
Missouri,
whose name was based on now-known-to-be-false claims that Brown
had his
hands up before being shot. The Defenders were built to rally
support
and awareness for the Trayvon Martin case and were funded by the
Tides
Foundation, another recipient of Soros cash.

Hands Up Coalition
has made it its mission to recruit and organize youth
nationwide to start
local events in their communities — trying to take
Ferguson nationwide.
[...]

About Me

'Mission statement'.
I am convinced that jewish individuals and groups have an enormous influence on the world. The MSM are, for almost all people, the only source of information, and these are largely controlled by jewish people.
So there is a huge under-reporting on jewish influence in the world.
I see it as my mission to try to close this gap. To quote Henry Ford: "Corral the 50 wealthiest jews and there will be no wars." `(Thomas Friedman wrote the same in Haaretz, about the war against Iraq! See yellow marked area, blog 573)
If that is true, my mission must be very beneficial to humanity.